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Same in Copenhagen[0], but they do appear to have LIDAR units monitoring the track edge at stations without doors. [0] https://youtu.be/R8QvM000uyE?t=151

I don't think they actually get to drive the train then, just get the press the close door button on the panel. The train still drives to the next station without any human input. …

Strange because the DLR is almost completely automated (no driver, but ticket inspector closes the doors) and has no platform edge doors. But they do have emergency stop buttons on…

The irony of you starting your rebuttal with an ad hominem attack is pretty amusing. Expecially in reponse to an article that talks at length about others in nutritional science us…

I always take issue with the idea that people should just make themselves more "valuable" to get a job. While it sounds like a good idea in principle, it ignores the fact that with…

You seem to make the assumption that corrupting the secure enclave firmware is easy, or that its RAM is exposed of chip. The entire point of an secure enclave is to completely encl…

The memcache was purely the result of polling the server every second to keep different JS clients in sync. Admittedly it's not very elegant, but it was something I did just to see…

A stupendous amount. Before starting this project I had never done any complex frontend stuff. Pretty much just HTML CSS and a bit of jQuery. With this one project I learned about …

About two months off and on.